The photo shows the Rev Leslie Brame with his parents Ruth and Thomas (but known as William) in the late 1930s. They are standing in the porch (that Leslie’s father built) outside the family home in Church Walk, not long before he left Stowupland to start his missionary work in China.
We briefly mentioned the Rev Leslie Brame in Update News 17. Since then thanks to Stowupland Congregational Church we have learned a lot more about him. We are extremely gratefulfor their loan to us of a copy of an unpublished manuscript written by the Rev Leslie Brame ‘As I Remember It‘. I understand in due course this will be donated to Stowmarket Congregational Church.
The manuscript has been bound in two books. Book 2 deals mainly with his missionary years in China during the Second World War. His is an amazing story and deserves to be widely shared. However it is Book 1 that I have focused on because it tells us so much about what he recalled of his life in Stowupland during his childhood, so between 1914 and 1940.
Over the coming years his memories will be shared to Stowupland Local History Group in our monthly talks, but some of the details can be found under the relevant sections of our website.
Page 1 of 276 pages of Book 1.
In our Newsletter 29 which appeared in the August 2024 edition of Telstar 378. You can read a review of our June meeting when Sandra Walker took us back to Stowupland in the 1940s and we took readers on a brief stroll along the River Gipping.
